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Watching, hoping: A city roots for its favorite child

By Scoop Jackson
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Mote Whiting is who this is really about. At 91 years young, he assures me he'll be sitting on the edge of his bed with his glasses hanging on the tip of his nose, watching the television, house shoes 3 feet away in case he has to go to another room to get something. He'll be watching TBS, but the sound will be off. Mute is how he'll play it. His radio, he says, will be on 670 AM, the local Cubs station. The station he knows will live the games with him, not just catch him up to speed on what's ...

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